April 2014 to September 2014

PROGRESS REPORT

HAND INAPRIL HAND 2014 TO NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2014 PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 CONTENTS 02

Executive summary 3 Our results 4 Operations across the network 6 Hand in Hand India 6 Hand in Hand Afghanistan 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS Hand in Hand Eastern Africa 13 This report covers the activities of the Hand in Hand network. We operate Hand in Hand Southern Africa 16 in India, Afghanistan, Eastern Africa and Southern Africa, with support and fundraising operations in Sweden, the UK and the US. Funding 19

We’re always working to improve our reports. Questions? Suggestions? Please Lessons learned 20 contact [email protected]. Looking ahead 21

Tailoring student | Gatsibo district, Rwanda Damaris Musyoka | Mat manufacturer | Muumando, Kenya

Spaghetti making | Nahar Shahe district, Afghanistan

Self-Help Group Treasurer Peter Maina (right) with Hand in Hand trainer David Thuku | Gatundu, Kenya

Throughout the Hand in Hand network, the period between April and September 2014 has been bound by a single theme: innovation. In the UK and Sweden, we launched long-awaited new websites and made significant strides in securing new funding. And in towns and villages throughout our operating countries, Hand in Hand field staff piloted diverse new programs, all designed to expand and deepen our work fighting poverty with jobs.

Dehqan Self-Help Group | Cotton traders | Afghanistan PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF: PILOT PROGRAMS ACROSS THE NETWORK Our team in Afghanistan is piloting the One District One Product program in Bamyan, our newest operating province, at the request of the Afghan government. The concept originated 30 years ago when high-unemployment communities in Japan banded together to produce single products that could compete on a national, even international scale. The Japanese produced mushrooms and mandarins. Our participants, 160 micro-entrepreneurs in two districts in Parwan and Herat provinces, are producing fruits, vegetables and dairy.

Five-thousand miles away, Hand in Hand Southern Africa is helping 500 young school leavers in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal succeed as entrepreneurs – our first time exclusively targeting youth in the country. The initiative is a natural and important step in South Africa, where more than half the population is younger than 30. Launched in July, it has already resulted in 286 jobs.

A similar pilot in Eastern Africa, still in in its infancy, is teaching students to think about entrepreneurialism the same way they think about maths and English. So far, 40 students at Wango Primary School in Nairobi have started to learn skills that will help them start their own businesses when they’re older. If the pilot is successful, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa hopes to expand it into a Florida and daughter | Shop owner | Rwanda full-scale program over the months and years to come. PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OUR RESULTS 04 OUR RESULTS The Hand in Hand network has supported 1.8 million jobs to date. 1,257,136 1,160,192 96,944 BUSINESSES ADDED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT

Mar 2014 SEp 2014 8.4% H Cumulative businesses ACHIEVEMENT TOWARDS STRATEGIC PLAN 1,812,729 1,663,929 2,755,000 1,949,536

148,800 1,812,729 JOBS ADDED o7% APR 2014-SEP 2014

GROWT BELOW TARGET (SEP 2014) MAR 2014 SEP 2014 8.9% H Cumulative jobs

1,286,949 66% SEP 2014 SEP 2014 MAR 2016 1,162,389 0F OVERALL TARGET ACHIEVED OVERALL TARGET TARGET (MAR 2016) Cumulative jobs

124,560 We’ve achieved 93% of the network-wide target for MEMBERS ADDED September 2014 set out in our Strategic Plan, published in APR 2014-SEP 2014 summer 2013. GROWT

MAR 2014 SEP 2014 H In order to meet the plan’s overall target, we’ll need to 10.7% create 942,338 jobs by March 2016. Cumulative members

CONTACT HAND IN HAND INTERNATIONAL CEO JOSEFINE LINDÄNGE FOR DETAILS PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OUR RESULTS 05

TRENDS BY COUNTRY Cumulative businesses 1,125,200 1,056,400 959,000 915,000 856,000

90,000 73,600

37,100 33,400 24,600 26,700 12,400 15,700 10,200 7,100 2,000 2,600 2,900 3,570 4,800

India Eastern Africa Southern Africa Afghanistan

Cumulative jobs 1,573,300 1,481,300 1,382,000 1,305,000 1,229,000

116,400 116,100

86,600 90,700 74,300 56,200 44,200 42,000 32,700

8,400 3,000 3,900 4,300 5,300 7,000

India Eastern Africa Southern Africa Afghanistan

Sep 2012 Mar 2013 Sep 2013 Mar 2014 Sep 2014

CONTACT HAND IN HAND INTERNATIONAL CEO JOSEFINE LINDÄNGE FOR DETAILS Self-Help Group members | Kancheepuram district Indian ﬂatbread | Kancheepuram district

Dairy farmers | Kancheepuram district OPERATIONS ACROSS Dairy farmer | Kancheepuram district THE NETWORK: INDIA

Self-Help Group members | Kancheepuram district PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 07 1,125,194 1,056,388 959,064

In a country where social custom and government regulation both create barriers 68,806BUSINESSES ADDED to women’s self-employment, Hand in Hand APR 2014-SEP 2014 has helped create 1,573,281 jobs for female GROWT H micro-entrepreneurs. Mar 2014 Sep 2014

1,573,281 7% Cumulative businesses 1,481,302

91,979 68,806 JOBS ADDED Number of new businesses 28,468 APR 2014-SEP 2014 supported by HiH in the six National six-month GROWT H months to Sep 2014 average of new formal businesses* Mar 2014 Sep 2014 6% Cumulative jobs Hand in Hand business growth versus the national average *This ﬁgure captures the average half-yearly number of private companies with limited liability registered between 2004 and 2012 in India. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org.

MEET SAVITAH Low prices, high margins, zero waste. For paper plate manufacturer Savitah the key to success has been straightforward – but it hasn’t been easy.

Savitah enquired as far as 1,350 miles away to source cheap raw materials, knowing they could make or break her business. Today she consistently undercuts her competitors while maintaining a healthy 27 percent Savitah Kanchipuram | Paper plate manufacturing | Tamil Nadu, India profit margin, boosted by the sale of offcuts to paper merchants. Her monthly net income, once zero, is now 21,500 rupees (US $350).

Eager to share her success, 31-year- old Savitah has recruited five members into her group, and was recently elected its leader. “The best thing about the support of the group has been that it made me stand on my own two feet, and now I am able to inspire others to do the same,” she said. PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 08

In the past six months, almost At the same time, loans grew 12 percent – 60,000 disadvantaged women joined exactly in line with the previous half-year a Hand in Hand Self-Help Group. growth rate. US $250 MIL 1,006,943 US $223 MIL 948,074 US $26.6 MIL LOANS DISBURSED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT H 58,869MEMBERS MOBILIZED APR 2014-SEP 2014 12% GROWT H

Mar 2014 Sep 2014 6% Mar 2014 Sep 2014 100%REPAYMENT RATE Cumulative members Cumulative loans

OTHER PROGRAMS Uniquely within our network, Hand in Hand India operates four complementary programs to help boost the job creation model. The programs help members access better healthcare, improved educated, a cleaner environment and life-changing civil rights training.

Cumulative to Increase 6 months Cumulative to % increase Mar 2014 to Sep 2014 Sep 2014 EDUCATION

Panchayats (local administrations) 1,220 22 1,242 2% reached

Number of children enrolled in school* 210,006 29,876 239,882 14%

ENVIRONMENT

Water Resource Management: hectares 8,591 452 9,043 5% covered

HEALTH

Anemic women reached 21,100 3,894 24,994 18%

Toilets constructed 9,362 259 9,621 3%

CITIZENS’ CENTERS

Centers established 3,343 16 3,359 –

E-literacy trainees 516,481 47,513 563,994 9% PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 09

our reach in India With a population of 433 million – about the same as the US and Mexico combined – demand for programs in Hand in Hand India’s operating states has never been higher. So instead of expanding, we spent the last six months deepening our presence in existing areas, recruiting 58,869 new members. Long-term, we plan to expand into Uttarakhand. Beyond India, pilot programs in Myanmar and Cambodia are underway.

IN OPERATION PLANNED PAKISTAN UTTARAKHAND

NEPAL RAJASTHAN BHUTAN CHINA

BANGLADESH MADHYA PRADESH

ODISHA MYANMAR MAHARASHTRA

THAILAND KARNATAKA BAY OF BENGAL CAMBODIA TAMIL NADU PUDUCHERRY

CONTACT DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER SARA LÖFBERG FOR DETAILS Raziq | Poultry farmer | Kaldar district Naﬁsa | Food canner | Nahar Shahe district OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: AFGHANISTAN

Zabor | Honey producer | Marmul district Asifa | Grocer | Nahar Shahe district PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: AFGHANISTAN 11 6,972 4,795 5,289 1,683 3,566 JOBS ADDED 1,229BUSINESSES ADDED APR 2014-SEP 2014 APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROW TH GROW TH Mar 2014 Sep 2014 32% Mar 2014 Sep 2014 34% Cumulative jobs Cumulative businesses

With expansion into Jowzjan province, the recruitment of new members has accelerated. 1,229 1,542 22,371 Number of new National six-month businesses supported average of new formal 14,425 7,946 by HiH in the six businesses* MEMBERS MOBILIZED months to APR 2014-SEP 2014 Sep 2014 GROWT

Hand in Hand business growth versus the national average Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H *This ﬁgure captures the average half-yearly number of private companies with limited liability 55% registered between 2004 and 2012 in Afghanistan. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org. Cumulative members

Najia, right, and employees | Food Canning | MEET NAJIA Nahar Shahe district Najia is a canny entrepreneur in more ways than one. Armed with nothing but her wits and the skills she learned at a Hand in Hand Afghanistan Self-Help Group, the mother of four from Nahri Shahi district increased her income from zero to 40,000AFN (US $720) a month – all by selling canned goods.

Financial success has of course been rewarding, says Najia. But a newfound sense of empowerment makes the long, often gruelling hours especially worthwhile. “My life has totally changed,” she says. “I’m no longer dependent on my husband’s income and I can easily purchase clothes and school materials and take my children to the doctor. I’m even saving for emergencies – and to expand my enterprise.” PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: AFGHANISTAN 12

We put loans on hold while mobilizing a new cohort of almost 8,000 members. As training progresses and members start to launch their own businesses, we’ll return to disbursing loans in 2015. OUR REACH IN AFGHANISTAN US $416,908

US $416,908 This April, Hand in Hand Afghanistan expanded into Jowzjan, a province of about 500,000 bordering Turkmenistan in the country’s north. We’re still seeking funds to complete the expansion.

LOANS We also established a temporary presence in Bamyan with 0DISBURSED funds from the government’s Afghanistan Rural Enterprise APR 2014-SEP 2014 Development Programme (AREDP), which invited us into GROWT the province to boost its work creating jobs. From June to December 2014, Hand in Hand Afghanistan is training the staff and owners of 48 small- to medium-sized enterprises Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H 0% in business skills, bookkeeping and more. Cumulative loans

IN OPERATION PLANNED TAJIKISTAN UZBEKISTAN

JOWZJAN BALKH KUNDUZ BADAKHSHAN TAKHAR TURKMENISTAN KABUL SAMANGAN SAR-E POL

BAMYAN PARWAN

HERAT NANGARHAR

IRAN PAKISTAN

CONTACT PROGRAM MANAGER AGNES SVENSSON FOR DETAILS Treasurer and trainer of Ginroma group | Nairobi, Kenya Hannah Haciku | Tailor| Thika, Kenya

Alice Nduku | Kale farmer | Machakos county, Kenya Martha Kimuyu | Machakos county, Kenya OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK:

Irene, Halima and her son | DVD shop owners | Nairobi, Kenya EASTERN AFRICA PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: EASTERN AFRICA 14

New business growth slowed as a result of Rwanda’s dry season, when agriculture is put on hold. Excluding Rwanda, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa experienced 48% growth in cumulative businesses. 16,474 Number of new businesses

90,046 supported by HiH in the six 5,995 National six-month months to Sep 2014 73,572 average of new formal businesses*

16,474 Hand in Hand business growth versus the regional average BUSINESSES ADDED *This ﬁgure captures the average half-yearly number of private companies with APR 2014-SEP 2014 limited liability registered between 2004 and 2008 in Kenya and Rwanda. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org. GROWT

Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H Cumulative businesses 22% MEET FLORIDA “We used to eat just once a day, in the evening. We didn’t have

116,379 our own home but stayed with others. I couldn’t even afford a bunch of bananas,” says Florida Mukarugema. 86,593 How things have changed. Today, bananas are Florida’s bestselling item, the staple around which the young mother 29,786 built her growing business, a shop that also sells rice, flour and more. Recently, with help from Hand in Hand partner CARE JOBS ADDED Rwanda, she borrowed 108,000 Rwandan francs (US $158) to

APR 2014-SEP 2014GROWT build a water facility and sell clean water.

Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H Florida’s annual income is now 1,200,000 RWF (US $1,760), 34% almost 10 times what she made previously and three times the Cumulative jobs gross national income per capita.

127,658 “I am feeling happy. I am no longer crying,” she says. 94,956 32,702MEMBERS MOBILIZED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT

Mar 2014 Sep 2014 34% H Cumulative members

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Florida and family | Shop owner | Eastern province, Rwanda PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: EASTERN AFRICA 15

Loans jumped after Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s Enterprise Incubation Fund moved past the pilot phase.

US $1.2M US $0.7M LOANS DISBURSED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT US $0.5M H 138% OUR REACH IN EASTERN AFRICA In April, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa expanded into Kenya’s Western province. Plans to expand into Coast Mar 2014 Sep 2014 100% REPAYMENT RATE province were put on hold due to security concerns. Cumulative loans

IN OPERATION PLANNED ETHIOPIA

RIFT VALLEY EASTERN

UGANDA KENYA SOMALIA WESTERN

CENTRAL

NAIROBI RWANDA COAST

BURUNDI TANZANIA INDIAN OCEAN

CONTACT PROGRAM MANAGER AGNES SVENSSON FOR DETAILS Nombuso Ngubo | Brick manufacturer | KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa Brick manufacturer | North West Province, South Africa OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK:

Naomi Masilo | Shop owner | Gauteng province , South Africa southern AFRICA

Ubuhlebuyeza group | Weavers | KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: SOUTHERN AFRICA 17 37,101 26,666 BUSINESSES10,435 ADDED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT

Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H Cumulative businesses 39% 116,097

90,745 111,000 10,435 National six-month Number of new average of new businesses formal businesses* 25,352 supported by HiH in JOBS ADDED the six months to MEET THE OTSHEPENG APR 2014-SEP 2014 Sep 2014 POULTRY ENTERPRISE GROWT Hand in Hand business growth versus the regional average Three years ago, the three men and six women *This ﬁgure captures the average half-yearly average of private, formal sector companies registered from 2004-2012 in Lesotho and South Africa. Data for that make up the Otshepeng Poultry Enterprise Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H 28% Zimbabwe and Swaziland are not available. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org. from Manamakhotheng, South Africa, were barely Cumulative jobs making ends meet. Today, they’ve got more than 87,850 South African Rand (US $8,000) in group savings, weekly salaries of 600 South African Rand 37,101 (US $55), and plans to buy a third chicken house to keep up with demand.

The co-operative started in 2008 but it wasn’t 26,666 10,435 until 2011, after joining Hand in Hand’s Enterprise BUSINESSES ADDED Development Program, that the group began APR 2014-SEP 2014 turning a profit. “(Hand in Hand Southern Africa

GROWT Enterprise Development Facilitator) Nkaloseng has assisted us a lot in managing our business,” says 49-year-old Kedibone Moemi, the group’s Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H chairperson. “We would not be where we are Cumulative businesses 39% without him.”

116,097 The group recently won US $2,000 from its local municipality for good recordkeeping. Naturally, 90,745 says Kedibone,111,000 the money’s gone straight into 10,435the business. National six-month Number of new average of new businesses formal businesses* 25,352 supported by HiH in the six months to JOBS ADDED Sep 2014 ÜÜ APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT éé†† Hand in Hand business growth versus the regional average *This ﬁgure captures the average half-yearly average of private, formal sector companies registered from 2004-2012 in Lesotho and South Africa. Data for Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H 28% Zimbabwe and Swaziland are not available. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org. Cumulative jobs

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Hand in Hand Self-Help Groups now represent almost 49 percent of NGO-led savings group membership in the region. 129,977

104,934 265,167 Number of formal, 129,977 NGO-led savings group Number of Hand in Hand Self-Help members region-wide, 25,043 Sep 2014* MEMBERS MOBILIZED Group members, APR 2014-SEP 2014 Sep 2014

GROW TH Hand in Hand Self-Help Groups members versus the regional total *Source: SEEP, a global network of 120 NGOs dedicated to reducing poverty through Mar 2014 Sep 2014 24% ﬁnancial inclusion. Data include South African, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Cumulative members OUR REACH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Rather than expand, Hand in Hand Southern Africa spent the last six months deepening its presence in existing operating areas. An attempted coup in Lesotho in August caused considerable anxiety but no disruption to our work in the country.

IN OPERATION PLANNED

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MOZAMBIQUE BOTSWANA LIMPOPO

MPUMALANGA GAUTENG NORTH WEST SWAZILAND NAMIBIA ÜÜ éé†† KWAZULUNATAL SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO ARABIAN SEA SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

CONTACT HAND IN HAND INTERNATIONAL CEO JOSEFINE LINDÄNGE FOR DETAILS PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 FUNDING 19

FUNDING HIGHLIGHTS In the six months from April to September, our The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency offices in the UK, Sweden and the US raised (Sida) and Hand in Hand Eastern Africa are teaming up – again US $4.6 million – on par with the same period last – with a landmark two-year, US $1.5 million partnership in Kenya. year. The total includes the first US $396,000 raised Announced in October, the grant will result in some 14,000 jobs to support our Kenyan Village Program, launched on – 20 percent of our target in the country over the next three April 1 to support entire communities at once. The years. The program builds on our partnership with the Kenyan offices transferred US $4.3 million to the Hand in Hand government’s agricultural program, which aims to “transform network’s operating organizations. Kenya’s agricultural sector into an innovative, commercially oriented, competitive and modern industry.” Hand in Hand Southern Africa has been highly successful at mobilizing funds. In early-2014, the team In May, the Johnson and Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust secured US $1.1 million in funding from UN Women. contributed US $100,000 to Hand in Hand’s project in Samangan This in addition to earlier grants from the South province, Afghanistan, joint-funded by the European Union. The African government’s Jobs Fund and the National grant, our third from the Trust since 2011, will help create 450 jobs Lotteries Board of South Africa worth US $3.3 million. and benefit 3,000 family members – 5 percent of our 30-month target in the province. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS In October, Hand in Hand Sweden welcomed 200 guests to Stockholm’s Fotografiska, the country’s biggest photography INDIA gallery, for an exhibition featuring Hand in Hand India shot by SOUTHERN AFRICA US $2,142,720 award-winning photojournalist Magnus Wenmann. The event INDIA raised more than US $830,000 – Hand in Hand’s single-day record US $445,203 for private donations. Plans to host similar events are already in SOUTHERN AFRICA US $2,142,720 the early stages. (See page 21 for photos from the exhibition.) AFGHANISTUS $445,203AN EASTERN AFRICA US $565,187 US $1,192,633 Finally, our Kenya Village Program continues to gain steam AFGHANISTAN EASTERN AFRICA after launching on April 1. The program invites donors – be they individuals, groups or companies – to support entire communities US $565,187 US $1,192,633 at once, creating 400 jobs and lifting some 2,000 family members KEEPING COSTS LOW out of poverty with a single donation. In only six months, nine villages have been sponsored by donors including Swedish firms Hand in Hand is committed to keeping our Founders Alliance and Invest AB, netting a total of US $396,000. overheads low. Our UK and Sweden fundraising Our Village Upliftment Program in India, established in 2008, and administration costs to expenditure (FACE) received funding for 15 villages worth US $660,000 in the same ratio over the last six months was below 10 percent. period, thanks to the efforts of Hand in Hand Sweden. The UK’s ten biggest development NGOs, by way of FUNDRAISINGcomparison, AND have an average FACE ratio of 20 percent. “I am very pleased the Lions Club has joined Hand in Hand’s quest ADMINISTRATION to eradicate poverty in the world,” said Ulf Bengtsson, former COSTS IN-COUNTRY FUNDRAISING AND PROGRAMS District Governor of Lions Sweden and the driving force behind 10%ADMINISTRATION one such sponsorship. “If our joint-project in Karikili, India, proves COSTS IN-COUNTRY90% successful, I am convinced the Lions Club’s future involvement will 10% PROGRAMS be significant.” 90%

CONTACT PROGRAM MANAGER LISELOTT LIUNGMAN FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE KENYA VILLAGE PROGRAM PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 LESSONS LEARNED 20 LESSONS LEARNED HERE’S WHAT WE’VE LEARNED OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS, AND WHAT WE’RE DOING TO IMPROVE REFINING OUR PROGRAMS IN INDIA TRAINING IN RWANDA Our investment in independent evaluation continues to pay More than 48,500 of the most marginalized people in off. Last month, a review of Hand in Hand India’s vocational Rwanda have joined our program with CARE International. training program published by microcredit ratings agency The partnership has given our trainers access to thousands M-CRIL produced some useful findings. Chief among them: of pre-existing Village Savings and Loan Associations “the optimum age for training… was 35, despite the fact established by CARE, though we’ll also be mobilizing our that participants aged 20-35 acquire skills faster.” own groups in the coming months.

The reason? By 35, parents have enough time away from Progress on training, however, has been slower than children to pursue their own businesses. Other interesting anticipated. So far, only 12,000 members have started findings included the diminishing returns of providing learning financial and business skills, a consequence training in more than one vocation. In fact, said the study, of regulations designed to promote employment that “78.4% of those who obtained training on one vocation ban NGOs from training Rwandans during business started a new enterprise, while 60% of those who had hours. Given Hand in Hand’s focus on job creation those obtained training on two vocations started a restrictions are in the process of being lifted. And to make new enterprise.” up for lost time, an additional 95 field trainers have been added to our team. As a result, we’ll be targeting clients in their mid-30s wherever possible. We’ll also shift more resources to first- time trainees, who the data show are more likely to start their own businesses. CONTACT PROGRAM MANAGER Agnes Svensson FOR DETAILS

Tailoring teacher Odette’s daughter, Divine | Gatsibo district, Rwanda

Tailoring apprentice | Gatsibo district, Rwanda PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 LOOKING AHEAD 21 LOOKING AHEAD FUNDING IN AFGHANISTAN: MIND THE GAP Hand in Hand Afghanistan’s presence in Samangan is growing by the day. Eight months after launching in the province with US $1.2 million in funds from the European Union, we’ve mobilized 5,614 members, 73 percent of them women. By the time the 30-month project is done, we’ll have helped create some 8,100 sustainable jobs, benefiting an estimated 56,700 Afghanis.

Countrywide, a US $1,133,919 funding gap for 2014 and 2015 remains to reach our targets by the end of next year. Plugging this gap is one of Hand in Hand International’s top fundraising priorities over the next six months. Contact Program Manager Agnes Svensson for details.

Magnus Wennman visits Hand in Hand India In May and July, award-winning Swedish photojournalist Magnus Wennman toured our operations in India. To buy a limited-edition print from his visit, email [email protected]. All proceeds go to Hand in Hand India. CONTACT HIHINTERNATIONAL.ORG +44 207 514 5091 FOLLOW US AT @HIHINT Photographs: Magnus Wennman